Holocaust Memorial Year

Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, has been killed by Russian shelling that struck his flat in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Buchenwald Memorial foundation said Monday. He was 96 years old.

Israeli Jews stood in silence as sirens wailed across the country today marking Holocaust Memorial Day and 70 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camps

Nearly 200 people gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to light candles and mark the 70th anniversary of the disappearance of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.

Hungary's largest Jewish organisation Mazsihisz said on Sunday it was pulling out of a Holocaust memorial year, accusing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government of "ignoring" the sensitivities of survivors.

Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, has been killed by Russian shelling that struck his flat in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Buchenwald Memorial foundation said Monday. He was 96 years old.

Israeli Jews stood in silence as sirens wailed across the country today marking Holocaust Memorial Day and 70 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camps

Nearly 200 people gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to light candles and mark the 70th anniversary of the disappearance of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.

Hungary's largest Jewish organisation Mazsihisz said on Sunday it was pulling out of a Holocaust memorial year, accusing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government of "ignoring" the sensitivities of survivors.